Quotes About Perspective

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you're trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I'd try to make the world crack with me.

No one should live beyond 30

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport.I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her. Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Cada vez que creas que tienes que criticar a alguien, me dijo, solo recuerda que no toda la gente de este mundo ha contado con las ventajas de que tú has gozado.

I think one thing today and another tomorrow. That is really all that's the matter with me, except a crazy defiance and a lack of proportion.

I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man." This isn't just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.